breaking news this hour american woman is accused of killing a russian child in her care amid an ongoing spat between moscow and washington over russia's recent adoption ban against the u.s. we got the latest coming up from a correspondent new york just ahead other top stories tonight fury in britain after a renowned military college renames a hole from being a fallen soldiers tribute to the king of bahrain has donated millions of pounds to it we follow that one of the. world's top whistleblower bringing the society relief after a rough failed career it gave him shelter in the ecuadorian embassy secures another presidential term. and u.n. investigators say both the syrian government and the opposition of committing war crimes but britain pushes for supplies to the rebels.

for a while welcome so if you just joined us this is r.t. it's a monday night my name is kevin irwin our top stories in the breaking news are just mentioned a russian child adopted by an american woman has died after suffering injuries according to a tweet that's been posted by russia's child's rights let's go live to our tease when important in new york for this breaking story hi there what do we know about what happened to three year old. here's what we know so far three year old maxime koosman died on january twenty first in texas russian officials say at the hands of his abusive stepmother now an autopsy according to officials showed that maksim suffered multiple injuries to his head his limbs his abdomen and internal organs

prior to his death and the investigation conducted by russia's investigative committee revealed that maksim was beaten by his stepmother who officials say also allegedly fed him strong. tropic medication investigators say that the boy died before medics which who were cold to the scene by his stepmother arrived now according to reports the u.s. state department did not comment on the boy's death which as i mentioned reportedly happened on january twenty first nearly one month ago the incident however did become known to the russian embassy in the u.s. russian officials say that the u.s. state department has failed to provide help to russian diplomats investigating maxime's death and called the incident quote yet another inhumane abuse of rush of a russian child adopted by an american family clearly an investigation is ongoing spearheaded by russian officials and high officials say that there will be they are

calling for a severe punishment for those found guilty in the death of maxine but clearly this is not the first case that we are reporting about of russian children adopted in the states. dying or being killed at the hands of their adoptive parents. you know of only about a month ago the details are just filtering through to the news agencies from this tweet we'll be following up over the coming things from the. next britain's top military academies accused of betraying the memory of first world war heroes one of the holes that some of those killed in the first major battles of the war will now be renamed after the king of all rich bahrain because in london if you tell us more about this one either polly how has the monica borrowing money to get a prominent name check among britain's military training elite what's the reaction . when you see the hall was originally named in order of the bottle of mormons

which was one of the first major battles of the first world war it's for the brits fighting the germans thousands of british soldiers lost their lives there but as critics say it looks like the memory of their heroism has been sold for some three million pounds to the king of bahrain he's made a donation to sandhurst for that amount of course bahrain is a government that we as we know has been accused of waging a violent crackdown against antigovernment protesters over the past two years since an anti-government uprising began but nevertheless the british government has very strong links to the bahraini regime just to give you an example of the few of those we've got quite a few bahraini security officers who train. just like the king himself did actually we've also had the top former top boss from scotland yard he's now actually overseeing the bahrain police he's employed by the morning tea over there and of

course last but not least we've got the sale of u.k. weapons over to bahrain there were restrictions on that last year but they've been very quietly lifted and the u.k. government is now free to sell weapons to the king's army again that was the government on this was a stand off to go to david said. well it looks like for the british government the age old adage that money doesn't smell is very relevant in this situation we've had a spokesman for the ministry of defense they've defended the move saying that all donations to sandhurst are in compliance with the u.k.'s domestic and international legal obligations and their values as a nation but of course even some members of parliament are saying that they're appalled by this behavior and quite frankly that the u.k. should not be accepting money from such governments such as the bahraini government

probably pretty quick to pledge millions of rebels in syria millions to them what's stopping them from funding some of those with a stroke using some of that money. well that's the question that quite a few people here are asking kevin but it's not just the british side that's been getting stick in this situation the bahraini government has been accused of effectively buying silence in order to avert western governments criticism in the situation and the whole deal as i'm calling it it's not the first of its kind we've just arrived at the united arab emirates reportedly donated some fifty million pounds to stand despite the fact that their government has been accused of human rights abuses as well why does a top military leader all these donations in the first place is it because of the global what's the big need for money. well of course government austerity is affecting public spending in all departments and it has reached the.

previously untouched defense budget as support says of these donations the saying the grim and very pragmatic reality of the government is that it's better to take money from the very bold bank accounts of the king of bahrain rather than taking it from the public. money talks as you say thanks for the live from london that. i mean time is under fire again for selling weapons to regimes repeatedly accused of human rights violations was recently has been revealed the u.k. sold billions of pounds with a small arms weaponry and relation to sri lanka that's despite his direct quote in treating the tamil minority in the suppression of separatist as to where this with jim brann from the stop the war coalition he's live in london for us either jim even britain's foreign office insists. country of concern as it puts it into thousands of civilians were killed during the civil war there along with widespread

reports of extrajudicial killings was britain selling weapons to them and. well. the height of the civil war a few years ago there was a certain amount of bad blood between the authorities in colombo and london. and with the victory of the authorities in colombo then clearly wants to move as quickly as it can to establish good relations and also this course there is the geo strategic questions because sri lanka occupies a very strategic position. in the indian ocean you have the united states what they call the pivot toward asia which britain is duty plea going along with and good relations with the sri lanka would be very valuable in that context also because this whole idea that britain abides by human rights criteria in arms exports simply doesn't make sense and generally should be discounted the arms trade is

a very hard. profitable geo politically important business and that's the business which britain is engaged in in the sales in general and in to sri lanka in particular thinking about other repressive regimes is it all about profit though or is there more to it another side to it as well. no i think there's a combination of factors profit is clearly one but also the geo political implications if you don't like a regime you don't generally sell arms to them and if you want to bolster them you do and that really has nothing if you look at the record that has nothing to do with human rights positions. so you find for example large maximum sales to the middle east to countries like for example saudi arabia has no pretense of elections like the lone human rights bill and that is par for the course that's not an

exception to the rule what does britain take a different approach to syria. yes i mean you have a situation you just had this report from. the gif from the king of bahrain and the issue is that in the for example in the gulf states and in. states in general human rights considerations simply don't apply at all whereas the intervention in syria there with the one that they keep proposing is supposed precisely to be on the basis of human rights it wants to arm the rebels look at the arms embargo doesn't it. yes i mean they they they've got problems the reason they haven't lifted the arms embargo is because of formally is because they have problems in doing it they can't actually control the situation in a way that they would like but they want the option to be able to lift the and

involved go to intervene militarily if they want that option even on top of that report today you would investigate to release this report accusing the syrian rebels of committing war crimes as well as the government do you think their resolve to arm the rebels will be a strong after that report is out now. i'm afraid there is no evidence to think anything else because that criterion that they are whole question of human rights simply doesn't apply that's not. a minor consideration it's something that they talk about very publicly but they don't abide by and yes i have no doubt at all if they could work out. the advantage of doing it formally and openly they certainly would in fact we know that they are supplying arms it's simply that they use this criteria and they say that what we supply is. defensive arms of just as much arms as often there are there isn't really that

distinction and they have been supplying things like communications and other things obviously. stop the war coalition live from london thanks ever so much. between victory the world's most famous whistle blower can rest easy tonight dorian president secure it is a job for another term according to exit polls anyway some of the country's diplomatic children london decision made by rafael career are more insight on this snow than from artie's and this is now rafael correia is preparing to win and has already declared victory in this first round according to some analysts he was marked to win a third term with this platform seen in ecuador and across latin america as standing up to the u.s. and france but the opposition is more or less seen as pro-u.s. here's adrian south gucci the founder of the second republic project. public

opinion for all of latin america is growing very weary with u.s. intervention and u.k. intervention throughout the continent which is. even argentina brazil. are having government keeping very much for arms from the united states and latin america this very strong popular movement trying to move away from the united states well craig has benefited from the sentiment by pledging to continue down this road now gray a pretty much securing a third term as ecuador's president will be a headache for washington but is very good news for whistleblower julian assange and he was of course granted political asylum by ecuador the only country to really stand up for him a small country which doesn't have much leverage managed to do to so far make it impossible for a song to be extradited to sweden for questioning over sex assault charges even with pressure from the u.s. and the u.k.

correia has said this that there can't be a problem due to asylum it's neo colonialism a silence has been holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london fearing he will be arrested if he steps outside and so far hasn't been granted safe passage while under house arrest and premier at an interview show right here on r.t. and one of the guests was nonetheless correia take a listen to some encouraging words from the ecuadorian president to assad's who move to go to salute it is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and. to the club of the persecuted . and that seems to have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship between us sons' and ecuador. the full interview took me ruffo career is available streaming on a website r.t. dot com as well as all the other episodes of his talk show which aired here on r.t. last year. still to come on the program with me kevin zero in tonight trouble in

front says country demands uses identities are revealed now in what's being seen as a threat to free speech and a step towards cross border censorship also evidence russian scientists discovered now the first fragments of the meteor or that crashed in the u.s. last friday course have left hundreds injured. after this short break. new year's celebrations on the move without the traditional t.v. or face to food surprising meetings and new adventures stories of love and love lost power russians teach foreigners to celebrate their biggest holiday of the year for must go to st petersburg by train over you may be miracles.

wealthy british style. time was approved by the. markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to gaza report on our. lead. again russian scientists claim they found the first fragments from that rare cosmic encounter which saw that meteor crash in central russia friday causing shock the

station and spray devery for miles around injuring more than twelve hundred people you go to an office in the us for our take. time to sort of confirms that the tiny pieces that be found at a lake sheba cool which is around one hundred kilometers or sixty miles away from chile audience are parts of that exact media which sparked apocalyptic fears in several russian regions on friday they say that the pieces are just around one centimeter in size or less that's like a baby was just shows how massive the blast was since it's estimated that the media away from ten to fourteen tons. of the blast was equal to around thirty bombs dropped on hiroshima the meteorite exploded while it was still high in the skies above no radiation was involved nevertheless it still damaged buildings and shattered windows the consequences of that can still be seen all across the city like on the sports arena behind me over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children. mostly from these pieces of glass flying

around. well its soul ready started a genuine meteorite rushing the urals in russia groups of people are now combing through the snow and ice in search of chunks of could be worth thousands of dollars per gram far outstripping the price of gold it entails long did it more and that r.t. dot com also there to. radioactive reality japanese research has played a bleak picture of how the fukushima nuclear disasters affected the health of almost half the children living in the area some disturbing findings there. what's acceptable in one country often isn't ok in others and that's getting

twitter in trouble right now france has ordered the micro-blogging site to reveal the personal data of users who posted what were deemed to be hate messages or pay a hefty fine but twitter's an american firm operating under u.s. laws now it is reflection of an examines the implications of a move which could open the censorship floodgates. to democracy is stumbling over the concept of freedom the french court has called on twitter to help censor hate speech on the web site in france because it violates its laws the tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given the word the french word as we wired to do that the question is how can the french or enforce this judge those decision when the union of jewish students of france took the issue to paris cotton october they wanted to stop away with and to semitic messages posted under the hashtag. a good jew it was. is the third most popular tagged subject of the time the number of

insulting jokes reach thousands but these people all of whom have at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible if. we don't want to prosecute or treat these people but just to draw the attention of the northeast to such cases to let them decide whether or not it's a case of racism. or when a social tweeter agreed to remove offensive content but the authors were anonymous and punished so french jewish brought the popular micro-blogging site to trial the court decision in january asked the company to divulge the names of people behind the tweets the fight against racism has nothing to do with the violation of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the way it is understood in the us we just wanted this part of our live to obey this country's legislation which prohibits public racism but not everyone agrees if

freedom is limited they say it's no longer freedom jeremy of jewish origins himself is one of them he says greater liberty shouldn't bring more restrictions but a different approach to controlling the internet you have twitter a private company that may be acting as a judge deciding what is legal and what is not and removing content which is censorship so i agree that this content should be combated but i don't agree that the private companies such as twitter should implement privatise censorship of free speech online this is a major risk today this story has sparked rode a discussion of the violations of freedom and privacy in france there are at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing authorities access to internet users personal information caps and web storage is and surveillance. is not like would be like china tomorrow although we are concerned that france the us britain. some

other democratic powers are helping to produce internet surveillance technologies for china syria libya egypt and tunisia will if they allow the governments of these countries to use it against their people is there any guarantee that france will not use it against its own people won't do. with this dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the us and france and any greenland reached with the fact all subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to let personal freedoms slide. they. need their liberty equality for eternity france's most famous motto and three peers the country has been resting on since the french revolution and today they face new challenges with racism been one of them and it has many fear in whether both intolerance itself and the fight against it may see those hard fought principles swept aside. or if not from paris. more of the day's top stories now first off in pakistan militants the disguises

policeman attacked the office of a top politician bashar killing five people comes a day after protests across pakistan demanded more security for the sheer minority after another deadly bombing that left more than eighty people dead demonstrators way flags chanted and held up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop. recent turkey of clashes froze demonstrators in front of a prison complex on the outskirts of istanbul activists gathered to protest the long lasting trial of almost three hundred people used to plotting a political coup allegedly linked to a terrorist network but critics say it is a tit for tat move against the turkish army for openly showing its discontent with prime minister the ones islamic learning policy. the pope has blessed tens of thousands of people in simply to square one of his last appearances as head of the catholic church the eighty five year old is the first pontiff to resign in six hundred years later today the looks of his legacy and the divisions that continue

to threaten the church. why the change you can see it was the hierarchy that covered up the sex scandal for years ok it backs the problem too isn't it and it certainly is and they have the power yes are you ok i asked nancy jump in this is cross talk go ahead the council of bishops says been very firm and the hierarchy about these catholic nuns for taking. exactly the positions you're saying they should be taking and that i agree that they should be taking but it matters you seem to say that the road is a real don't you know that some people would say some people say that the only thing that that creates a catholic church is the fact that we have a pope that we have these bishops and cardinals who get get behind closed doors and with a little puff of smoke they tell us really why duty is to be. a true faith bearing catholic. if you.

say twenty five moscow time the competition between the u.s. and china to be the world's foreign trade supremos talking to in recent years with the two titans now neck and neck the latest figures indeed show that washington faces a worthy trading rival for the first time since the second world war going to chicken for us he looks at how america's early education system might affect its leading status. still home to amazing king of asians into knowledge but will it be able to maintain its experts are looking to schools for the answer to that question internationally fifteen year olds in the u.s. are ranked twenty fifth among peers from thirty four countries in math while china tops the chart harvard published a study titled globally challenge our u.s.

students ready to compete it looks at how the results in math at school can affect nation's economic development they estimated that the results students in the u.s. showed today can cost the country seventy five trillion dollars over the next eighty years seventy five trillion dollars i spoke with professor eric from stanford university one of the authors of this study a leader in economic analysis of educational issues here's what he said this is a tremendous impact you can measure. the terms of g.d.p. and it would in present value terms be over five times the current g.d.p. of the united states your improve our schools over the next two decades i asked professor henitiuk what's the main reason behind the poor results in math and u.s. schools is it that the world's wealthiest nation doesn't spend enough on education

he says money is not the reason this looks like it's largely an issue of the quality of the teachers in the classroom now there are so many issues about the curriculum and what's taught in the textbooks and so forth but what we've found is that the biggest influence on student achievement in our schools is the teacher in the classroom china now doubles down on science and technology at schools all the technological advancement there varies from region to region but the trend is there and it's strong judging by the initiatives put forward by president obama in his state of the union speech washington recognizes the urgency when. reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science technology engineering and math the skills today's employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future for decades the u.s. has been a magnet for scientific genius from all over the walt.